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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I

Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848. 285 words

1699, the 6th of August, Jan Ecker having finished his time, as appears by his delivered notice of his service as deacon, shows his receipt of the communion money to be £54 16. Further I find a notice dated 25d August, 1702, in which Jan Ecker acknowledges when he was deacon to remain of his receipts above the expenditure up to £149 in money. By which it would appear as said above. The receipt at two periods of the deaconship by said Jan Ecker has been and will amount to £288 17 0.

The receipts of Jacobus Sie, deacon in 1701, were £254 1^. Credit expenditure for the church for bread and wine for communion to the sum of £61 10 and the present moneys are found to be 192 11

which have been put in the box of the church."

£254 1 Upon the 24th of August, 1787, Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip van Cortlandt (commissioners of forfeitures for the southern district of New York,) conveyed to the trustees of this church and their successors, &c., "all that certain church and two acres o land adjoining thereto, including the burial ground situated near the upper mills in the said manor, bounded southerly and west by the post road or highway, and north and eastward ly by the land of Gerardus G. I^eeckman ; and also that certain farm of land situate and lying and being in the said manor of Philipsburgh, &-C., bounded westward! y by Hudson's river, northerly by laud now or late belonging to John van Wart, easterly by land now or late belonging to Jacob Buckhout, and southerly by land now or late Gloud Requa's containing 100 acres more or less," (fec.^